Cigar-filler feed



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WILHELM B. BRONANDER, 01" MONTCLAIR, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO INTERNA TIONAL GIG-AR MACHINERY COMPANY, A CURPGRAIION OF NEW JERSEY.

CIGAR-FILLER FEED.

Application filed December 22, 1923. Serial No. 682,162.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, TVILHELM B. BRO- NANDER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Montclair, county of Essex, and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cigar-Filler Feeds, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in cigar filler feeds, and it has for its main object the production of a more efficient and more economical device of this general character. A further object of'the invention is the production of a device capable of use in connection with the usual feed belt of known cigar machines. With these and other objects not specifically mentioned in View, the invention consists in certain combinations and constructions which will be hereinafter fully described and then specifically set forth in the claims hereunto appended.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification and in which like characters of reference indicate the same or like parts, Fig. 1 is a side eleva tion, partly in section, of a device construct ed in accordance with the invention; Figs. .2 and 3 are similar views showing some of the parts of Fig. 1 indifferent positions, and omitting some of the parts; and Fig. 4 is a'front elevation, partly in section, of the device shown in Figs. 1 to 3 inclusive.

in carrying the invention into efiect, there is provided a plurality of presser wheels adapted to act upon a sheet of filler ad vanced by the feed belt of a cigar machine, and a plurality of feeding fingers interspersed among said wheels and acting independently upon the sheet of filler, and means for producing a four-way feeding movement of the lower or active ends of said fingers. In the best constructions, said means includes a cam actuated floating bar upon which said'fingers are fulorumed and a cam actuated rocking frame and a plurality of springs normally holding said fingers against said frame but permitting said fi l? gers to independently yield in the event of an excess of filler within their range of action. The above mentioned parts may be widely varied in construction within the scope of the claims, for the particular device selected to illustrate the invention is but one of many possible concrete embodiments of the same. The invention therefore is not to be restricted to the precise details of the structure shown and described.

Referring to the drawings, there is provided a bed 5 which is a part of the cigar machine in connection with which the present device is used. This cigar machine is provided with a feed belt 6, the construction and operation of which is well known, lies outside the scope of the present invention, and therefore needs no detailed description. The upper run of this feed belt, upon which filler is spread by the operator, has the usual intermittent forwardly feeding movement which brings the filler material within the range of action of a plurality of presser wheels 7 each of which is provided with a pair of trunnions 8 engaging slots 9 in a grid 10 supported by a bar 11 extending across the cigar machine. The pressure ex erted by these wheels is governed solely by their weight, and they act upon the advancing sheet of filler to compact the same to a limited extent on the feed belt 6.

Interspersed among the wheels 7 is a plurality of feeding fingers 12 fulcrumed at 13 to a rocking arm 15L, which in turn is fulcrumcd on a shaft 15 journaled in suitable bearings in aframe 16 supported by the main frame of the cigar machine. On one of its ends the shaft 15 is provided with an arm 17, and this arm 17 carries a cam bowl 18 tracking in a cam groove 19 formed in one face of a cam 20. This cam is mounted on a short shaft 21 journaled in suitable bearings in the frame 16. This shaft is driven by means of a short universal link 22 deriving its motion from. a shaft 23 journaled in a bracket 24 rising from the bed 5 efor re rred t The shaft 2 is d en thereon.

by means of a sprocket 25 deriving its motion, through the agency of a sprocket chain, from a sprocket on one of the shafts of the cigar machine in connection with which the device is used. The shaft 23 and the cam 20 rotate continuously, and the cam groove 19 is adapted to produce at the proper time a rocking movement of the shaft 15 which raisesand lowersthe feedingifingers 1-2.

The upper part of all of=the fingers 12 normally rests against rollers 26 rotatable on a bar 27 supported by a rocking frame 28 which frame-has a leg 29 pivoted on a stud 30 fast to one side of the frame 16; the frame 28 also has a second leg 31 fulcrunied on a stud 82 supported on the other side of the frame 16. The le'g31 ha-'s "an integral arm 33 which carries a cam bowl 34L tracking ina groove 35 formed'in the cam 20before :referred to. The upper end of each food finger 12 isprovid'ed with a'series ofnotches 36iintoone of'which'is hooked oneend of a spring 37, the'other.end of thespring'being hooked into suitable apertures in a forwardly extending web 38 formed integrally with the frame 28.

The'cam groove 85 is-designed to rock the frame 28 on its fulcrum 32 at theproper time.

Assumingthatithe parts are in the posi tion shown in Fig. 1, rotation ofthecam 20 causes the lower end of the feeding fingers to move downwardly and engage the filler material on the feed belt 6, as shown in Fig. 2. .Furthermovement ofthe'cam causes-the frame 28 torockon its :fulcrum, the springs 37 normally iholding the upper end of each feeding finger against one of tl'ie-rollers 26; thus the lower ends of the feeding fingers are moved to the position "shown in Fig. 3, under normal conditions. If, however, there is an excess of'tobacco in the wake of any one of the fingers, the resistance ofiered :therebyavill cause thespringof that fingfer to .yieldso that the part of the sheet'of filleron the beltfi in the wake of that finger will not=be fed forward as far 'asthe rest ofl the sheet. By thisineans, any "error of the feeding operator in placing too much filler oneonepart of the belt'fi iscorrected before thesheet is delivered from the feedingr device. VVhen'the parts reach the pos1- tionshown in Fig.3, the cam grooves cause thewlower-end of the feeding fingers to be lifted, andthenunove backwardly along the line indicated in Fig. '3 by the'dotte'd line "having direction arrow heads placed Beyond the.=mechanisn1:sofar described is a knife 39 carried a frame 10 which is vertically vreclprocated by a cam and sultableconnections carried by the cigar ma- 1. In a-cigar filler -feed, the eolnbilnition with a plurality of presser wheels, of a pluralityof feeding fingers interspersed among said wheels, and means for producing a four-way feeding movement of the lower ends of said fingers.

2. In a cigar filler feed, the combination with aplurality of presser wheels, of a plnrality" of feeding fingers interspersed among said wheels, 'and means for producing a four- *ay feeding movement of the lower ends of said fingers, the=pressure exerted by said wheels being governed by their weight.

3. In a cigar filler feed, the combination witha plurality ofpresser wheels, of a pinrality of feeding fingers interspersedamong said wheels, and means for producing "a foulway feeding movement of the lower ends ofsaid fingers, said means including a cam-actuatedfloatingbarupon which said fingers are fulc ruined.

4. In a cigar filler feed, the con'lbination with: a plurality of presser wheels, of a plurality of feeding fingers interspersed among said wheels, and means for producing a four-.vay feeding'unovement of the lower ends of said fingers, said means including a cam actnated rocking :frame against which said fingers normally rest.

5. Inacigar filler feed, the continuation with a plurality of presser wheels, ofla plurality of feedingfingers interspersed among said wheels, and :means for producing a four-way feeding 'movei'nent of the lower ends of said fingers, said means 111011161119: a cam actuated rocking frame and aplurahty of springs normally holding said fingers against said frame.

6. In a cigar filler feed, tlie coinbination with" a plurality of presser wheels, ofa aphirality of feeding'fingers interspeisediamong said wheels, and means for producing a *fOUI WiLY feeding movement of the lower ends ofsaid fingers, said means including a cam-actuated floating bar upon WillCl] said fingers are fulcrulned and a cam'actuated rocking frame and a "plurality of springs normally -holding said fingers against said frame.

'7. In a cigar filler feed, the combination with a-pluralityof presser wheels,-of a plur'ality of =feeding fingerS interspersed among said wheels, means yfor producing a four-way feeding movement of the lower ends of said way feeding movement of the lower ends of fingers, and means for feeding filler into the said fingers, and means beyond said wheels range of action of said wheels and fingers. and fingers for severing individual charges 10 8. In a cigar filler feed, the combination from the filler. 5 with a plurality of presser wheels, of a plu- In testimony whereof, I have signed my rality of feeding fingers interspersed among name to this specification.

said wheels, means for producing a four- WILHELM B. BRONANDER. 

